Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-29
SPYING OUT THE LAND.
An Index of the Feeling at the East
Looking Toward California.

An IntieN OF the FeelinS at the East
Looking Toward California.
We take the liberty to publish below a
private letter received al this office, as one
of the hundreds that are constantly re-
ceived in response to the articles being pub
lshed in the RECORD UNION upon the re-
sources of the several counties aud
localities in Central and Northern Califor-
MIA. We will trust to our Immigration
| Associations and real estate agencies to
| furnish the writer with data asked for, and
recommend that a goodly supply of
pamphlets, papers, ETC., descriptive of this
part of the State and its numerous ad-
vantages for home-seekers be forwarded to
the author of the following letter;
BosToN Mass, October 81, 1887.
EDS. RECORD UNION: Your issue of
| October 1st reached me o. X, containing a
description of Gait. Now I'd like to ask a
| favor, and in all probability it will be re-
| turned some day four-fold. l am like
many Eastern people, DESTROYS of getting
| out of the rut that so many of us live in
here, that is we are crowded, too many of
| us trying to live of of each other till the
| thing is overdonc. We don't produce
| much but we do handle that produced
| and the production of every other country
| for all it is worth. That is how we live
| and in turn We pay out all our profits from
such handling to the owner Of our homes
| Temporary ones), moving often of course.
and to the butcher and baker, tailor and
| tradesmen, for what? Why, to keep up
appearances.
A man with family, however small, if he
ht,S
| the neighbOr who inherited wealth, and
probably owns the very "home" where we
poorer ones live. Now, man who can
make by hard fight in trade and Shrewd
management $4,000 or $4,000 year here,
can Just live on it. Equally so can the la
boring man who may get, say, 5000 year.
1t all goes, and the beginning of the next
year sees him in the same box, viz: moth
ing he can call his own.
In reading your paper and the descript on
of Gait, which, by the way, l suppose is
only fair sample of large quantity of
your country, | am led to think there are
many of us who have little laid up-
drawing say three to four per cent interest
that if they had the knowledge of what
might be done with $1,000 to S, 900 they
would go where they could have a home of
their own that would be self-supporting
and where their labor would be laid up for
future increased value of said home.
There is no place in New England where
land will pay hardly meagre living to the
owner. In fact, as a rule, the more fortu-
nate ones are worth less to-day than ten
years ago.
viii your agricultural editor give an idea
how man with $1,000 to 5000 can come
to your country, and support his family
from the start, and lay the foundation for a
future home for his children-in a land
where there Is not such continuous battle
with the climate to sustain life, and with
one another for the dollar to buy neces-
saries and comforts, and where so many
luXurles are not in vogue? If no one on
your staff will do this, can't you refer me
to some reliable and willing party who will
send any useful information or description
of properties for sale-what they produce,
how much cost to begin, and what COM
forts can be had as we go along? Is there
no place where irrigation can be dispensed
with? The great land schemes of Southern
California are well shown up here, but they
look too inflated to our conservative East |
ern eyes and ideas. We don't dare to I'M
dertake to live by fruit industry l think
section where mixed farming would sue
coed is better for us. We want our horses |
cows, pigs, hens, etc
Will you also send me any back num- |
bers and any future ones that may contain |
any description of localities or sections of |
your immediate country, and | will glady |
show them up to many of my friends here, |
who look to me as q sort of pioneer in |
searching for a new country.
| have visited most of the South, but can
not feel that there are many places that we |
would like to settle in that are not open b |
objections on account of climate or pover,v
of soil, or distance from markets, etc / |
have no desire for booming places. We |
are now here on the verge of six long.
dreaTy months, and they will consume
about what the past six have produced,
and more, in the majority of cases. Respect
fully yours, II. w. SAYRE.